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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | Re: Lennon Remembers and he's a hypocrite |
| Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:03:56 -0500 |
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They had %&$#@ing Jann Wenner on GMA with %*%@#! Diane Sawyer this
morning talking about this newly released Lennon interview, and they
played a few clips. I wandered into the middle of the conversation, but
I think they said it's from 1970. Anyway, at that point John was clearly
a VERY bitter man, very resentful and maybe a little paranoid. Were I
him, I'd hate to be remembered for what I said there, and I'd especially
hate to have the anniversary of my death marked that way. For all his
flaws, he was someone who tried desperately to LIFT his audience, and
even if he failed, he failed trying (and I say this as somebody who has
been pretty critical of his post-Beatles career, too).
Then they "remembered" John by playing five seconds of "Imagine" and
then cutting to Marisol Castro for a weather update. God Bless America.
I have to go now. I'm late for a therapist appointment. He's trying to
help me deal with these nightmares I've been having about "Yoko Eno."
Michael vg wrote:
> HERE HERE!!!!! CLAP, APPLAUSE, CHEERS.
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> michael vg (standing ovation)
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>--- twangboy@aol.com wrote:
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>>my two cents
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>>sorry, but i gotta say I am as big a Beatles fan as anyone, but i am
>>REALLY offended by all the hero worship of John Lennon as a "family
>>man' and "Mr. All U Need Is Love" and 'Mr. peace and love and give
>>peace a chance" yet he pretty much ignored his first marriage to
>>Cynthia and all but forgot Julian, soooooo...is that the love John
>>really thought?
>>
>>holiday season or not, I stll think in his later years his music was
>>contived and pedestrian and his phony 'i love everyone and everything
>>is cool" schtick goes right up my a**...........
>>
>>just because he met a tragic end does not mean ALL his output was
>>genius........he certainly did not deserve an end so sudden and his
>>legacy was, and is, truly important, but I still am NEVER, EVER going
>>to like "Somewhere in NYC" no mattter WHAT...
>>
>>jim
>>
>>NP-John Lennon "Shaved Fish", True Love "Wings"
>>
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
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